Dr. Molly Anne Hughes M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Molly Hughes is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Hughes specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1996
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 2001
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Antimicrobial effects of interferon-inducible CXC chemokines against Bacillus anthracis spores and bacilli.
- The role of circulating mesenchymal progenitor cells (fibrocytes) in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis.
- Nod1/Nod2-mediated recognition plays a critical role in induction of adaptive immunity to anthrax after aerosol exposure.
- The case for developing consensus standards for research in microbial pathogenesis: Bacillus anthracis toxins as an example.
- Interferon-inducible CXC chemokines directly contribute to host defense against inhalational anthrax in a murine model of infection.
- Identification of the bacterial protein FtsX as a unique target of chemokine-mediated antimicrobial activity against Bacillus anthracis.
- Toxin inhibition of antimicrobial factors induced by Bacillus anthracis peptidoglycan in human blood.
- Knowledge and practices of laboratory workers on standardized antimicrobial susceptibility testing and biosafety practices to prevent the spread of superbugs in Pakistan.
- Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis treated with debridement and fluconazole monotherapy in an immunosuppressed patient: a case report and review of the literature.
- Escherichia coli Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Is an Important Component of CXCL10-Mediated Antimicrobial Activity.
- Case Report of Granulicatella adiacens as a Cause of Bacterascites.
- Listeria monocytogenes Endovascular Graft Infection.
- Respiratory viruses associated with severe pneumonia in children under 2 years old in a rural community in Pakistan.
- CXCL10 Acts as a Bifunctional Antimicrobial Molecule against Bacillus anthracis.
- Barriers to Implementation of Optimal Laboratory Biosafety Practices in Pakistan.
Awards
- American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 2001 Young Investigator Award
Fellowships
- Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA USA 2002
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